2ND SUNDAY READING SERIES: Bruce Jacobs
Sunday, February 14 / 4:00 pm/ Admission $3.00
Bruce Jacobs’ books of poems are CATHODE RAY BLUES (Tropos Press) and SPEAKING THROUGH MY SKIN (MSU Press), which won the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize. He has been published in a slew of poetry journals and anthologies, including 180 MORE, edited by former national Poet Laureate Billy Collins, and BEYOND THE FRONTIER, edited by E. Ethelbert Miller.
Jacobs has won poetry slams in Baltimore and at New York's Nuyorican Poetry Cafe. He is also the author of the nonfiction book RACE MANNERS FOR THE 21st CENTURY, and he travels and speaks about race. He is a longtime drummer, a slowly improving saxophonist, and a blogger at aliasbruce.typepad.com. He lives in Baltimore.
Julie Fisher of Poetryinbaltimore.com hosts. There will be an open reading as well. |
NEW! NEW! NEW!
Third Thursday Films at Minás:
Kristen Anchor & Jason Dove
Thursday, February 18 / 7pm / Donations appreciated
Heather Rounds hosts a new film series spotlighting local filmmakers. This month it’s shorts by Kristen Anchor and Jason Dove’s: Jason Dove Diaries: Season Two.
Kristen Anchor is the Director of Creative Alliance MovieMakers. Anchor is a frequent panelist, moderator and presenter for film and video events and organizations. She is a co-founder of the award-winning queer cabaret Charm City Kitty Club, is a video/installation artist, plays drums for Baltimore’s all-girl garage band The Degenerettes. Her video work is featured in several DVD compilations including Films About Nothing, Hondance , and Creative Capitalism’s Notebook. (www.kristenanchor.com)
Anchor will screen her shorts: Dogs in Space / Alien Seed / I'll Pass / Ape (Directed by Jim Lucio, Edited by Anchor) / Female Trouble / The Ends / Shake Baby Shake.
Jason Dove has lived in Baltimore, MD since 2002 and has been making comedy shorts since 2007. Most recently Dove has written, directed and starred in The Klang Tour Journals, Burn Books for Peace as well as The Jason Dove Diaries. Dove is known primarily as a musician who performs regularly with his two bands, Vacation Face and Beard.
The brand new season of The Jason Dove Diaries takes you inside the unbelievable story of how Dove met Adrian Grenier, star of HBO's Entourage & drummer for NY-based band, The Honey Brothers. The Series follows Dove as his admiration for Grenier dissolves into fear after an incident involving the actor/musician's rare, imported drum set. Through a series of poor decisions, Jason finds himself over his head in an underworld of drugs and organized crime. (www.jasondove.com) |
510 Series: Kevin Sampsell, Jane Satterfield, Meghan Kenny, Ron Tanner
Saturday, February 20 / 5:00 pm / Free
Kevin Sampsell has been the publisher of the micro-press, Future Tense Books, since 1990. He has also worked at Powell's Books since 1997, as an events coordinator and the head of the small press section. His writing has appeared in various newspapers, web sites, and literary journals. His books include Creamy Bullets, Portland Noir (as editor), and the new memoir, A Common Pornography. His website is www.kevinsampsell.com.
Jane Satterfield is the author of Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond (Demeter Press, 2009) and two books of poetry: Assignation at Vanishing Point (Elixir, 2003) and Shepherdess with an Automatic (WWPH, 2000). She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, three Maryland State Arts Council grants in poetry, and the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society’s Gold Medal for the Essay. She lives in Baltimore with her husband, poet Ned Balbo, and her daughter Catherine, and teaches at Loyola University.
Meghan Kenny teaches writing at Towson University and for Gotham Writers’ Workshop online. She was the 2008-2009 Tickner Writing Fellow at the Gilman School in Baltimore and a 2008 Peter Taylor Fellow at The Kenyon Review Writers' Workshop. Her stories have appeared in Sonora Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, Cimarron Review, Bound Off, The Kenyon Review, The Florida Review and has one forthcoming in Pleiades. She won the 2005 Iowa Review Award for fiction and received a Special Mention in the 2007 Pushcart Prize Anthology. She received her B.A. from Kenyon College and her M.F.A. from Boise State University. She is working on her first novel.
Ron Tanner has published stories widely in such magazines as The Iowa Review, New Letters, and West Branch. His awards for short fiction include a Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society gold medal, a Pushcart Prize, a New Letters Award, a Best of the Web Award, and many others. His collection of stories, A Bed of Nails, won both the G.S. Sharat Chandra award and the Towson Prize for Literature and is now in its second printing. His story “Wheels” won the 2009 Gertrude Press award and has been published as a chapbook. Ron teaches writing at Loyola University in Baltimore. Currently he is writing a book about his time in Micronesia.
Jen Michalski and Michael Kimball host. |
Town Square Open Mic with Ashlie Kauffman
Sunday, February 21 / 4:00 pm / Free
Poetry / performance / stand-up comedy / acoustic music / fiction / mime / monologues / sleight-of-hand / puppetry / oratory / mimicry. If you can read it, perform it, sing it, or say it with little or no amplification, then bring it on!
This month’s Town Square features special guest Ashlie Kauffman, a freelance writer and a Hereford girl. She also currently teaches college composition at the CCBC Catonsville campus. She received her MFA in poetry from NYU, her MA in fiction from Johns Hopkins, and is the recipient of a 2008 Independent Artist Award in fiction from the Maryland State Arts Council. |
"Open your Heart" Yoga Series
Nine Wednesday nights, January 6 - March 3 / 6:00 – 7:30pm / $65-series or $10-drop-in
COME TRY OUT CLASS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6 FOR ONLY $5--If you sign up for the full series that day, pay only $60 for the series!
Stephanie Snyder-Cornwell teaches a mixed-level yoga class with a focus on creating a solid foundation of basic poses. This class will stretch and tone the body by focusing on opening up the heart space (upper chest). We will tap into the heart chakra and access the intuitive listening of our heart's deepest longing. It is in the heart chakra where we are more easily able to access loving kindness and find unconditional love. This class is physically ideal for those who want to experience a lifted upper body, realign upper body posture, and need to stop carrying that stress in their shoulders!
To learn more, contact Stephanie at loveyourlivesout@gmail.com or 973-580-2670.
About the Instructor
Stephanie Snyder-Cornwell has taken a 105 hour Anusara Immersion program through the Willow Street Yoga Center. She is currently enrolled in an Anusara Teacher Training program with Todd Norian and Ann Greene. She believes that since our community is so diverse, there should be an array of accessible yoga venues. She teaches from a place of constant awe and enthusiasm that dwells from the deepest longing in her heart--to share the gift of yoga! Stephanie has been described as effervescent and fun! |
Seed in the Palm: Jenny O’Grady, Jennifer White, Jared Fischer, Kate Wyer
Sunday, March 7 / 4pm, Free
Jenny O'Grady earned her MFA from the University of Baltimore in 2006; she has taught book arts and electronic publishing courses in the program for two years. Last summer, she was one of five area writers featured in the *Urbanite's* "Emerging Artists" issue. In real life, she is director of alumni and development communications at UMBC and associate editor of *UMBC Magazine*. She and her husband adopted a baby boy from Seoul, South Korea, in 2009.
Jennifer White was born and bred in the birthplace of both plastic and Johnny Appleseed. She received her BA from the University of Colorado and MFA from the Creative Writing & Publishing Arts program at the University of Baltimore. Her poems have been published in Diner, Blind Man's Rainbow, Square One, Welter, Abbey, and Nerve Cowboy. Over the last five years she has spent chunks of time in Asia. Her travels and her more than decade long practice of Tibetan Buddhism influence her writing.
Kate Wyer is a mental health interviewer for the public health system of Baltimore. She has most recently been published in Robot Melon, Fringe, and Poets and Artists. Her work is forthcoming in NOO, LITnIMAGE and Birkensnake. Wyer has recently started a "living book" project called And, Afterward. She will be working with book artists to create a collaborative work that demonstrates their love of the book as an object. She blogs about the gnaw and release of days at www.movingsidewalks.blogspot.com
Jared Fischer plays the guitar and mandolin and sings in the band Mr. Moccasin. |
